EDITORIALS
EICHMANN TO HEAR HIS FATE
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Adolf Eichmann, accused killer of
6,000,000 Jews during World War II,
is to hear his fate this week. That is
the date the three-judge jury in Jeru
salem is to begin reading its verdict.
The Eichmann case, so far as we
know, has no parallel in history.
Eichmann was Hitler’s lieutenant
charged with eliminating the Jews and,
so characteristic of German precision,
he accomplished the task with cold
blooded dispatch. He contended, how
ever, that he was doing nothing more
than carrying out orders of higher au
thority.
He took flight and remained in obsc
urity for over 12 years, but the Jews
never forgot and persisted in the search
until he was brought to justice. Now he
has been given the benefit of trial and
an opportunity to state his case.
Eichmann deserves whatever he may
get but what kind of appeasement is
the life of one man for the death of
6,000,000? Again, what a study for
those who oppose capital punishment.
THE MEN ARE GRIPING
There’s an old Army saying that as
long as the men are griping everything
is all right. Reservists, called to duty
recently, are at it full blast. Some have
written their congressman, senators,
home newspapers and generally howled
because camp is not like home.
The Gov. of New Hampshire came
down to Fort Bragg, where many of
his constituents are in training, to get
a view of living and working conditions.
He was welcomed and he probably
found the men housed in World
War II drafty barracks, eating in neg
lected mess halls and becoming hard
ened crawling among blackjack oaks
on Cumberland’s sandhills; but they
will have water, hot and cold, the food
wholesome and clothing fitted to the
climate and training conditions. This is
the Army.
We wonder about the reaction of old
soldiers to such complaints, the GI’s
who answered the call in 1940-41-42
and later when Korea was invaded. The
beginning- pay in 1940 was just $21 per
month and, in camp after camp, tents
were their abodes and laundry was a
personal task. Some may have com
plained but they took it and went all
the way.
When we kick and snort because the
Army is not like home, we are admit
ting that we are a bunch of softies
wanting to be cuddled. Thei'e could
come a time when the hardness de
veloped through hard work and with a
minimum of conveniences will be the
difference between survival and failure.
SNOW GEESE HERE AGAIN
A report in the Coastland Times of
Manteo says some 4,000 Greater Snow
^eese have arrived for wintering at
Bodie Island and Lake Mattamuskeet
bringing with them bird watchers and
writers from far and near. But watch
ing, to the dismay of hunters, is all
that is permitted. Snow geese are out
of-bounds the year-round.
Once almost extinct because of hunt
ing depredations, the number now is
said to be about 35,000 and, seeming
to know that they are protected, this
beautiful bird appears to be unafraid
making it all the better for photo
graphers and writers to get a close
view.
A general feeling persists in some
quarters that game laws are too tight.
Without protective methods, night hunt
ing, fire-lighting and indiscriminate
slaughtering of our game would bring
on a state of complete extinction. Even
with regulations, too many are getting
away with murder in the taking of
game.
CHECKS WITH BOUNCE
We noticed a card on a bank teller’s
window sometime ago which said there
are 10 reasons why you should not cash
a stranger’s check.
The first was: “You don’t know him,
to h . . . with the rest.’’
And that brings up the news item
that bad checks with more bounce than
a basketball are turning up here and
there.
Merchants want to make every sale
possible, certainly, but why take a
chance on a check from a glib-tongue
tenderer when you don’t know him and
when there’s doubt about the signature.
AMBITION
The modern girl’s ambition is just
what her mother’s was—to make some
man a good husband.—(Answers.)
FEES AND INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION
While some fees are considered
necessary in the North Carolina school
system, the Raleigh News and Observer
says, generally, the fee system fosters
inequality of opportunity for children.
The point, the Old Reliable observes, is
that some parents are not able to pay
the fees for one course or another and,
thereby, the child is denied partici
pation in a course requiring a fee.
Dr. Charles F. Carroll, state superin
tendent, perhaps in jest, has said that
North Carolina is operating “fee
schools” rather than “free schools.”
Even the reference is enough to show
that the paying of fees is a serious mat
ter.
“One of the greatest teachings impli
cit in our whole system of free public
education,” says The News and Obser
ver, “is the equality in opportunity for
all children. And this fee system em
phasizes the inequality of ability to pay
among both children and parents. Some
of this may be inescapable.”
“This situation will not be quickly
cured,” The N and O goes on. “Until
Hie Slate Pert Pilot
Published Every Wednesday
Southport, N. C.
JAMES M. HARPER, JR._Editor
Sintered as second-class matter April 20, 1928
at the Post Office at Southport, N. C., and
other Post Offices, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Brunswick and Adjoining Counties
and Service Men . $2.00 per yea*
Six Months .... $1.50
Elsewhere in United States — $8.00
Per Year;—6 Months _.... $2.00
the tax payers provide the funds for
books and other school materials child
ren will have to buy them. There will .
probably be some essential ‘extras’ even
then. Still today school people who
have real faith in free education should
scrutinize carefully every fee which
children are required to pay. Certainly,
when such fees become—as Dr. Carroll
says in too many instances they have
become—obstacles to many children in
opportunity to learn, a situation has de
veloped which deserves the attention
not only of the head of our school sys
tem and all subordinate officials in it,
but also of all the parents and people
of North Carolina as well.”
Fees for varying subjects and pur
poses among counties range from a dol
lar or so up to $20 and $30 depending
on what a student elects to take. Co
lumbus county comes in the $20 to $30
bracket.
Is this high volume of fees imposing
a burden on a family with one, two or
P9ssibly three children in school where
such fees are required ? Chances are it
does.
We are among those citizens who
feel that tax payers are willing and
glad to pay their proportionate part to
assure that equality of education is pro
vided for all children.
We believe the people would respond
without question if they were told the
facts. We mean if they were informed
in advance about the existing situation
and why additional money will be need
ed.
It is a heavy blow for some families
when school opens and parents must
Put up $25, $50 or even more to get
their children started off properly
knowing, meanwhile, that other de
mands will come as the school year and
its activities advance.
“Well, There Was One Bad Moment •. . When I Thought
The Banana Dispenser Was Jammed!”
Time and Tide
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cooperation and patience on the part of the patrons.
Five years later the war was over, but the front page of The
Pilot for December 18, 1946, had a lot to do with shooting. For
instance, there was a virtual roadblock of men and dogs and
cars for a front page picture of a party of bear hunters from
Johnson City, Tenn.; one fellow had got himself in trouble by
shooting a doe deer; and James R. Rabon, member of a deer
hunting family, had missed a sure shot, when he had fallen vic
tim to the “sucker trick” of failing to breach his gun enough
to cock it.
Shallotte and Leland were off to another good year in basket
ball, with the Pirates taking a pair of games from Southport
and Leland doing likewise from Waccamaw; and once more there
was a plug for the postoffice department—both in news and edi
torially.
On the front page of our issue for December 12, 1951, there
was a picture of Dr. M. H. Rourk, who was chairman of the
Brunswick County Association of School Board members. Shal
lotte citizens and business men were set for the biggest Christ
mas parade ever held in that community.
The Shallotte American Legion Hut was free of debt—and that
was a fine tribute to the hard work and generosity of its mem
bers; boatmen had been warned not to anchor their craft in the
inland waterway; and a New York man had failed to return for
his damaged aircraft when the plane which he was flying on a
trip to Florida had made a forced landing on the Arthur Hewett
farm near Supply.
Letter To
Editor
December 11, 1951
Editor.
State Port Pilot,
Southport, N. C.
Dear Sir:
I’m just an ignorant man and
I don’t know much, but I read
the book review in The Pilot last
week on The Old Man And The
Boy.
Now I never real all of those
books the man referred to, but I
have read The Old Man And The
Boy; and I never enjoyed any
book I read more than I did that
one.
Yours very truly,
O. R. (Pappy) Stubbs
Supply, N. C.
December 7, 1961
Editor,
State Port Pilot,
Southport, N. C.
Dear Sir
Why do the good citizens of
Brunswick County stand idly by
and let Wilmington News report
ers take all the credit for our
county’s many places of interest?
Snch as the Sunny Point area,
Boiling Spring Lakes area, Old
Fort Anderson, Old St. Phillips
Church and even Old Brunswick
Town.
All of these are in our county.
The Batleship North Carolina is
really partly in Brunswick, but
this fact is never mentioned when
“Wonderful Wilmington” boosters
are bragging on New Hanover
county’s attractions.
Our county of Brunswick bears
the name of being a very poor
county, but its many wonderful
farms and gardens have been
rightfully called the garden spot
of America. The beaches and
rivers of Brunswick have many
attractions. Fishing and oystering
are the best ever.
One old fellow of another coun
ty was heard to cemment on
Brunswick’s resources. He said
that just before a person starved
to death down here that some
thing would crawl out of the
ocean that was good to eat.
Another thing I would like to
mention is our county Boarding
Home, long ago known as the
poor house, but not anymore. We
have a nice, clean building, prop
erly heated and comfortably fur
nished. The old folks are happy
and contented and it is no longer
considered a disgrace to go to live
at the county home.
So, Good Friends and neighbors
of Brunswick County, lets don’t
sit idly by and let someone else
take all the credit for our many
attractions and places of interest.
Respectfully,
Dora D. Holden
SHALLOTTE RIVER
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May 4 to June 26 by the con
tract dredge Midge.
Congressman Lennon spoke of
the spirit of progress in about
Shallotte and he declared that
each time he visits that section
of the county he is gratified to
see some notable improvement
that has been made.
JACYEES MAKING
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selected as the winner of this
contest, she will not sign a man
agement contract with any indi
vidual or corporation, and that
she will not give any written or
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verbal endorsement of any mer
cantile commodity or commercial
organization, nor will she permit
any photographs to be used in
connection with any advertised
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mission of the Shallotte Junior
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Not Exactly News
It may be a little too early .to tell, but there’s a chance there
will be no third generation of Watts fishermen. Trouble started
during Thanksgiving holidays when Basil Ray visited his South
Carolina kinfolks with his mother. He went deer hunting on a day
that they got two bucks, and although the Southport youngster
failed to score, he has been bit by the hunting bug . . . Tuesday
was the most springlike day we ever saw in December. It wasn’t
just that the temperature climbed into the shirtsleeved seventies,
but the air felt .like spring, and out across the river it looked
like spring.
Herbert Swain came in the office Monday and declared that he
had seen more squirrels in Southport than he had all one after
noon last week when he went hunting. That brought on com
ment about destruction that had been caused by these little ani
mals to the telephone trunk transmission line from Southport to
Wilmington. Company officials were perplexed as to what was
causing repeated trouble in service, when they discovered that
squirrels were gnawing through the lead sheath covering the
cable. This led to use of metal covering encircling the poles,
providing a surface impossible for them to climb . . . Calabash
received some good publicity during the past few days from
athletic meetings held there during last weekend. We saw two
stories in the N & O Tuesday morning datelines “Calabash.” The
Whiteville News Reporter carried three of these datelines Mon
day. a
Remember the,gas war we reported here last week? That was
Wednesday morning. By the time we got back into Brunswick
county that night the war was over and gasoline prices were
back to the point from which they had started . . . Rodney Gar
ner scored 14 points for Southport against Chadbourn last night,
but his younger team mates envy him more for the fact that on
Monday he received his driver’s license and now can operate the
Chevy convertible his parents bought him last fall.
Tuesday seemed to us to be a particularly good night for tele
vision. We enjoyed seeing Patti Page as guest star on “Bachelor
Father”; the Alfred Hitchcock Show had its usual queer iwist;
the Dick Powell Show maintained its usual fast pace; and we
conquered a built-in prejudice for the French star in time to en
joy the “Accent On Broadway” show . . . While on the subject
of spectaculars, we saw the tail-end of the State Varsity-Alumni
basketball game Saturday night in Raleigh, and seldom will you
ever see on one court at the same time so many basketball name
players. The results (an 84-82 victory for the old-timers 1 proves
that there still is some bounce left in these stars of other years,
this despite the fact that many of them have put on a lot of
weight where it is of no great help to a basketball player.
Elvis Presley has it made big in Brunswick next week. Start
ing Sunday, “Blue Hawaii” plays at Holiday Drive-In at-Shal
lotte . . . The same show is the big attraction Thursday-Friday
Saturday at the Amuzu in Southport . . . The turkey shoot, bene
fit of the Southport Boosters Club will be an all-day attraction
Saturday at Taylor Field. Remember, you have to shoot to win!
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DR. VICTOR RICE
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recognition of his professional
achievements while dean of agri
culture at the University of Mas
sachusetts.
In his capacity at State Col
lege, Dr. Rice directed the resi
dent teaching program for all stu
dents in the college’s School of
agriculture—one of the South’s
major training centers of its kind.
Agricultural pests cost the
United States $9 billion a year!
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